CVE-2015-5706 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2015-5706?

CVE-2015-5706 is a medium-severity use after free vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 31 Aug 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the path_openat function in fs/namei.c in the Linux kernel 3.x and 4.x before 4.0.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via O_TMPFILE filesystem operations that leverage a duplicate cleanup operation.

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-5706?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2015-5706?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2015-5706 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-5706 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-5706, GHSA-2g53-3pj8-qvxv, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5706.